April 2016

Slávek Horák’s Oscar-submitted debut feature Home Care is promising but uneven. A characteristically Czech mixture of comic-tragic tones, it leap-frogs from one mood to another. Some land while others don’t, but it’s a humanist film that never condescends to its characters.

A re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late '60s.

Directed by: Robert Budreau

Produced by: Terry Bird

Starring:

Ethan Hawke

Chet Baker is not an unlikely candidate for a biopic.

The very image of the dope-addled West Coast jazz cat undone by his vices, his biography is full of, shall we say, “incident.” Still, there’s a lingering sense of either lost promise or also-ran status that separates him from the usual towering figures we find in such films.